LeagueStat.com launches ECHL Game Center

This newest feature from LeagueStat.com adds to the experience of all ECHL games, allowing fans to access statistic and positional shot tracking in real-time through an interface that is fully optimized for tablets, as well as laptop and desktop browsers. Fans will also have access to detailed game previews prior to each contest in addition to being able to view the complete box score and link directly to AmericaOneSports.com to purchase live games.

“We have been working with the ECHL and other top leagues for over a year now on an interface for stats that perfectly marries real time data with streaming video,” said NewSport Media President and CEO Cary Morretti. “This week’s launch of the new ECHL Game Center is the result of those efforts. We’re excited about getting this out to fans and looking forward to rolling out even more stats and features as the season progresses.”

“The ECHL is excited to bring our dedicated fans the latest technology from NewSport Media to enhance the viewing of each ECHL game this season,” said ECHL Senior Vice President of Business Operations Ryan Crelin. “For the first time, ECHL fans can track every shot, save and penalty in real time, from the scorer’s table directly onto their digital device.”

Fans can access the ECHL Game Center by clicking the Game Center link on the ECHL Schedule page.

Premier ‘AA’ Hockey League Fast Facts

• Watch games live onAmerica One Sports, the “Official Broadband & Mobile Broadcaster” of the ECHL.

• The ECHL celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2012-13 and is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.

• ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a coast-to-coast league with 22 teams in 15 states in 2013-14.

• The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to ECHL on May 19, 2003.

•522 playershave played in the NHL after playing in the ECHL including 22 in 2012-13.

• The ECHL has had 330 players reach the NHL since 2002-03 when it changed its focus to become the primary developmental league for the NHL and the AHL. The ECHL had 97 players reach the NHL in its first 10 seasons and 215 in the first 15 years.

• 266 ECHL players have played their first game in the last nine seasons for an average of more than 29 per year.

• ECHL had a record93 playerson NHL opening-day rosters in 2013-14, surpassing the 87 from 2012-13 and marking the 11th year in a row that there have been over 50 former ECHL players on opening-day rosters.

• ECHL hasaffiliationswith 27 of the 30 NHL teams in 2013-14, marking the 17th consecutive season that the league has affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.

• 30 coaches with an ECHL background are working behind the benches of teams in the NHL including Anaheim Ducks head coachBruce Boudreau, Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma, New York Islanders head coachJack Capuano, Florida Panthers interim head coach Peter Horachekand Winnipeg Jets head coachClaude Noel. It is the ninth consecutive season that there have been 11 or more coaches with an ECHL background working in the NHL. Boudreau, who coached Mississippi for three seasons winning the Kelly Cup championship in 1999, was named NHL Coach of the Year in 2007-08 becoming the first former ECHL coach to receive the award.

• ECHL was represented for the13th year in a rowon the Stanley Cup champion in 2013 with Chicago Blackhaws assistant coach Jamie Kompon, players Sheldon Brookbank and Daniel Carcillo, vice president/assistant to the president Al MacIsaac, director of pro scouting Ryan Stewart and general manager of minor league affiliations Mark Bernard. The ECHL was represented by53 former players and 18 coacheson the 16 teams competing in the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, marking the eighth year in a row that there have been at least 30 former ECHL players and the 10th consecutive season that over 25 players with ECHL experience have competed in the NHL postseason.

• Former ECHL broadcasters working in the NHL include John Ahlers and Steve Carroll of the Anaheim Ducks,Dave Goucher of the Boston Bruins, Chris Kerber of the St. Louis Blues,Jack Michaelsof the Edmonton Oilers, Dave Mishkin of the Tampa Bay Lightning andBob McElligottof the Columbus Blue Jackets.

• Ryan Stanzel and Jeremy Zager, who were both recipients of the ECHL Media Relations Director of the Year award, are working in the communications department for the Minnesota Wild and the Los Angeles Kings, respectively. Former ECHL assistant director of communications Joe Siville works in the communications department for the Philadelphia Flyers.

• ECHL hasaffiliationswith 27 of the 30 teams in the American Hockey League in 2013-14 and for the past 24 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup champion.

• In the last nine seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined 4,000 with over call-ups involving more than 2,100 players and in 2012-13 there were 10 times as many call-ups from the ECHL to the AHL than all other professional leagues.

• The ECHL averaged 4,695 fans per game in 2012-13, the highest single-season average since 1999-2000, and marking the ninth consecutive season and the 21st time in the last 23 years that the ECHL has averaged over 4,000 fans.